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Tbh mate, this is kindae what I'm talking about. A decent number of season tickets absolutely. But it's a third less than last season. And those ST holder going to games and buying stuff the club makes cash out of aren't attending games. There's no gate money at all. Even if we're to put a very positive imagining of Hibs finances together and base it off season tickets we've dropped a third of our income, and that's a best case. We haven't dropped a third of our costs,even with loan players leaving. I don't think we'll be in any danger as a club, but I do think that our squad this season will have some more players leaving and not being replaced. The owner might well be willing to put money in, but at the moment that's looking like a complete money sink and I have doubts he'd do that. If you've got a firm endpoint then there would be a willingness to do that I think, but we don't know remotely when the club will start to actually generate any income again. Could be October. Could be January. We could get locked down again and this all starts again from the beginning. I don't think putting cash in to cover running costs is something which he'd be willing to fund indefinitely. The one other thing I'd say is that the problems I think we'll be having will be similar to Hearts and Aberdeen. And dwarfed by Celtic and Rangers issues.

Did Hearts voting to end the league damage it?

Honestly will be a bit surprised if we sign anyone. There's been an enormous financial hit taken which I don't think has been fully understood. The loss of income for 2019/20 and for an indeterminate period of 2020/21 isn't coming back, that's going to have to be factored in to any budget. The only way I see us signing anyone is by punting a couple of the most valuable players and using that to make up the losses. You'd think Kamberi would be one of them, but I'm unconvinced the fee for him will come close to covering it all. Our most sellable player is probably Porteous. Would be gutted if he left, but there might be no option. However, if we do that, I'd imagine that a lot of players will be available as free agents for not very high wages at all.

Isn't it? I thought UEFA had said top flight leagues should have a maximum of 40 fixtures in the interest of players health and wellbeing?

Introduce it for 2021/22 imo. 2 down, no automatic promotion. Play off for Championship winners v 10th.

I want free beer and hookers but I'm not getting it. Have you really just watched events unfold in Scottish football and concluded that clubs will take a financial hit willingly? They won't, and they never will. I'd prefer an 18 team league. It's not happening.

It does have a purpose, it enables more teams in the league while having a number of fixtures acceptable to UEFA. The alternative to a split is a 10 team league.

The 6/8 split is batshit. You've got an additional 4 games to fit in for the bottom 8 clubs scheduled from February going on the current calendar. There's a decent chance of cancellations in Scotland in both February and March. At least if it was a 7/7 split the calendar would be aligned between both half of the league. That raises the issue that 2 clubs wouldn't have a game each round of fixtures, but the top 6 clubs wouldn't have fixtures in 4 separate game days anyway. 7/7 at least gives one additional club higher away supports too.

The record attendance at Easter Road was 65k (Hibs have a higher home record attendance than Liverpool). The Dunbar end remained the same size until it was demolished and held 8k under modernish safety requirements. The old stand at ER had a capacity of c.4.5k with seats in the enclosure so you'd add maybe another 1000 without seats. So probably about 18-20k on those two sides of the ground. Which means 45-47k left. The cowshed end was smaller than the Dunbar end so maybe 8k there max. The old east max attendance was probably in the region of high 30 thousands going by that.

It wasnt that steep, it just went back forever which is how it got reasonably high. If you want to get a perspective on how far back it went have a look on Google maps and take the current east stand forward a few metres and it still extended to the new flats behind the current stand.

There was an interesting analysis done on Doidge. https://purefitbaw.com/2020/06/04/hibs-should-welcome-the-era-of-doidgeball/ Tl;dr version. As soon as he sorted out his finishing he was good. Neither Kamberi or Mcnulty hugely suited playing beside him.

We should be trying to sign him 100%. Already played in the league, standout for his side, leader on the park, and plays in a position where we've literally got no one to play naturally. He's also more than decent cover at centre half where we're short of bodies too. I'd actually be surprised if he hasn't been looked at/contacted by Hibs.

Word from someone who's seen the Sky agreement is that, shockingly, Ewan Murray was talking shite about the cap. The agreement is that its games on Sky which are limited to the number of season ticket holders last year. The rest of the games aren't capped and will be available to ppv. So the utter guesses in here saying exactly that were more informed than The Guardians chief Scottish Football correspondent. Stealing a living springs to mind.

You can pixelate areas of the screen you're streaming. Sky and BT do something similar where they've got a user ID on the screen, you'll notice streams always have a blurry bit covering that. I've yet to work out why it isn't technically feasible to move an identifying number around the screen tbh. Saying all this, piracy and streaming are distribution and pricing market failures. If you don't address them then there will be those who'll find a way round the barriers companies use to combat it. Netflix, Steam, and Spotify done more to combat piracy than the absolute f**k ton of attempts by industry.

It's from the same support who talked themselves into "we owe the money to ourselves". What were you expecting exactly?

I think it's conceivably the case that this is only about games covered by Sky.

a) Hearts and Inverness. Possibly Partick and Falkirk too. b) everyone else except Rangers. What do I win?

What's the betting the remaining 2.75m is being held in reserve if Hearts are relegated....

100% this. A place in Europe is a bonus for winning the cup. But it's a bonus, not the point of it. There's literally only two clubs in Scotland where winning something is more meaningful because of what it gives you rather than the actual winning of it. I'd guess outside old firm fans and 40+ year old Aberdeen supporters that you'll be lucky to have many people averaging over a trophy a decade regarding their sides winning major trophies.

Presumably as a foreign language. Which he's successfully maintained for his pupils.

Ken, it's fucking laughable. Big away supports are way more significant for smaller clubs than those in the Premiership. When Hibs played BSC at Alloa this season that crowd was enough to fund them for a year. If we had played Alloa instead that would not remotely be the case.

The most effected club regarding a third visit from Celtic and Rangers is St Johnstone. They sell around 6.5k tickets to them. At 30 quid a pop that's around 200k. However, that is including vat so knock off about 35k from that figure. It also comes with additional costs for policing and stewarding which probably isn't going to be much short of 15k. So the most effected club is down about 150k for each visit less they get. It's not a game changing amount of money. It's also why Hearts fans talking about boycotts when they take about a third max of that size of crowd to most places is utterly laughable. You're not important to any clubs financial health.

He could actually still play for Scotland. He's not been capped by Australia in a competitive game.

Because furlough is voluntary for companies. If they can get back to work they will first be asked to, then told that not doing so will leave them with a potential liability for repaying the furlough to hmrc.

I fucking knew his name. I was told it a couple of years ago in the Iona post match. After clarifying that it wasn't the cricketer I immediately lost interest, who gives a f**k about who it was. If they want to spunk their money away on Hearts best of luck to them was the general attitude (and also raised a query re how Hearts were getting round financial fair play rules with it).